10 s. x. NOV. 7, 1908.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
377
REGIMENTAL MARCHES (10 S. x. 167, 312,
352). Can any one say when the 6th
Dragoon Guards first identified itself with
- I 'm Ninety-five ' ? If we could ascertain
that, we should have some clue to the time when the song lately the subject of inquiry in these columns was composed.
ST. SWITHIN.
"HASTLE" (10 S. x. 108). Korting's
- Lateinisch-romanisches Worterbuch ' (1891)
under *fastigialis, quotes the Spanish hasticd, which is defined as " Wand in der Kirche, welche denFenstern gegeniiber liegt." Will this throw light on the term hastle as applied to a part of a building ?
EDWARD BENSLY.
" DISDAUNTED " (10 S. x. 328, 352). I have frequently heard this word used by old people of the labouring (agricultural) class in this district. Indeed, I might almost say that it is commonly used by them (instead of "undaunted"). I have, how- ever, never seen the word in print.
R. VATJGHAN GOWER. Ferndale Lodge, Tunbridge Wells.
CHARLES, CARDINAL ERSKINE (10 S. ix. 87). I have not been able to find any por- trait of this cardinal. Dr. Brady does not mention one. Can any reader kindly tell me where one is to be seen ? Is there one in the Supplement to Guarnacci's ' Vitae ' ?
W. S.
BISHOPS AND ABBOTS (10 S. x. 309). Charles Spence, in his ' Essay descriptive of the Abbey Church of Romsey,' 1841, gives biographical details of the ' abbesses and others connected with that abbey.
FREDK. A. EDWARDS.
SNAKES DRINKING MILK (10 S. x. 265, 316, 335). On the connexion between snakes and milk in folk-lore see J. S. Stallybrass's translation of ' Teutonic Mythology,' by Jacob Grimm, 1883, vol. ii. pp. 686-7.
M. P.
KINGSLEY'S * LORRAINE, LORRAINE, LORREE ' (10 S. x. 210, 278). Barum is, I believe, the old name of Barnstaple. Does this help at all ? T. M. W.
HAMPSTEAD IN SONG (10 S. x. 187, 296). 4 Sunday in Hampstead,' by James Thomson (1834-82), might be noted.
J. R. FITZGERALD.
"WAINSCOT" (10 S. x. 325). Is not vo a possible miscopying of w ? J. T. F. Durham.
Jftisallatuous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.
Roman Life and Manners under the Early Empire. By Ludwig Friedlander. Vol. I. Translated by Leonard A. Magnus. (Routledge & Sons.) TRANSLATORS go on trying their hands over and over again on Virgil and Horace, and by no means bettering the efforts of their predecessors, when there are several books of great importance for classical study which ought to have been translated long ago. Such are Lobeck's * Aglaophamus,' Rohde's ' Psyche, 1 and the volume before us, the
- Sittensgeschichte Roms ' of a leading authority on
later Rome. Mr. Magnus has taken the seventh and enlarged edition of this masterly book, and given us a very readable translation, which opens up the whole world of the later Empire to the young student. The book ought to secure a wide circulation. The second volume, translated by Mr. J. H. Freese, is to appear next year.
SIR ALFRED LYALL opens The Fortnightly with an able summary of 'The State in its Relation to Eastern and Western Religions,' which was his Presidential Address at the recent Congress for the History of Religions at Oxford. Mr. Francis Gribble gives some interesting details of ' Chateau- briand's First Love,' Miss Charlotte Ives, whom he met in his exile in Suffolk. It does not, like other stories in the life of the great French writer, do credit to him. * Literature in Drama,' by Mr. E. A. Baughan, is full of notable points, though not, we, think, entirely just in its verdicts. Mr. A. R. Colquhoun declares that 'The Only Way in Rhodesia' is to devote all the money and energy possible to bringing in a population. M. Eugene Tavernier, translated by Helen Chisholm, eulogizes the career of ' Ferdinand Brunetiere.' Mrs. A. G. Hurd in ' Lost Homes and New Flats ' takes a somewhat exaggerated view of the disadvantages of the form of dwelling which is covering London. Mr. Sydney Brooks thinks that Mr. Taft will win ' The American Presidential Election ' by a small margin of votes only, but has turned out a bad prophet. Mr. W. S. Lilly has a serious discussion of
- The Right of the Father,' which is more thoughtful
than attractive. Fragments of 'Au Coaur de la Vie,' by Pierre de Coulevain, are translated in ad- vance of its publication, and display an interesting, though wayward personality. Miss Violet Hunt has in ' A Physical Lien ' a clever, but unpleasant story of modern love.
IN The Cornhill Mr. Lucy's * Sixty Years in the Wilderness' are as bright as ever, and include several testimonies to the regard which his work ha,s secured. Mr. Austin Dobson's verses 'For a Visitor's Book' are pleasing, but slight. Judge Parry in ' The Box Office ' seems to us to take too narrow a view of the effect of money on other professions than that of acting. " Some men do not so much write that the world may read ; rather because it is in them, their chiefest happiness, and because the spirit giveth them utterance," is a
worth getting
this month. Mr. J. H. Yoxall has all the airs and
graces of the great stylist in his gossip 'Of a
Spinning-Wheel and a Rifle,' which does not attrac
